OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Germany   In 2013 the German publishing group Axel Springer called a competition to expand its Berlin headquarters with a new building that would be both a symbol and a setting for its shift from traditional printing to digital media. Containing 52,000 square

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   China   This mixed-used skyscraper designed by OMA / David Gianotten contains 60,000 square meters of offices over a 40,000-square-meter podium mall. Built by the real estate developer China Merchants Shekou Holdings in Shenzhen’s Shekou economic zone, the 2

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   China   This 360,000-square-meter mixed-use development has been designed by OMA / Chris van Duijn as a 'microcity' within the Qianhai business district of Shenzhen. Containing offices, retail, two hotels, and a cultural center, stacked volumes form two towe

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   South Korea   With a petrous skin interrupted by a bulging loop of faceted glass, this department store stands at the heart of Gwanggyo, a new town close to Seoul. The building is by Rem Koolhaas's Rotterdam-based OMA, with Chris van Duijn leading the project. Sur

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Belgium   The design that won the 2018 competition to turn three buildings on Fonsny Avenue, by the Brussels-South train station, into new offices for the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Belges, Belgium’s national railway company, has been unveiled. With

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Indonesia   On the Indonesian island of Bali, within the Badung regency and the Seminyak beach town, we find this OMA project carried out under the direction of David Gianotten, an exclusive hotel complex that combines guest amenities with spaces accessiblt to t

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Netherlands   Drawn up by an OMA design team led by David Gianotten and Mariano Sagasta, the masterplan for reurbanizing the VDMA site in the center of Eindhoven transforms the area into a mixed-use hub, with housing, offices, and public spaces distributed in 75,0

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   China   The design by the studio of Rem Koolhaas, OMA, in collaboration with the Chinese consultants CCDI is the winner in the competition for the International Conference and Exchange Center (IFEC) in Shenzhen. Located in the Pearl River Delta, in the distr

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   The Guggenheim Las Vegas and the Guggenheim Hermitage, at The Venetian Hotel-Casino of Las Vegas, opened in 2001 and closed in 2003 and 2008, respectively. The first one, a ‘large box’ of 6,000 square meters, with a stately central staircase in a lim

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Germany   After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, planning guidelines for the reconstruction of Berlin demanded that new buildings reflect the local 19th century architectural style. Located in Mitte, in the old East section and by the Spree, the project proposes a

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   The aim of the project was to reinvigorate the IIT Campus, planned by Mies van der Rohe in the 1940s. Over the years the campus had sprawled but lost half its population, and was separated by elevated railway tracks. The competition called for a new

Rem Koolhaas   While today the countryside is largely off (our) radar, an ignored realm, considering its condition and future was a priority as recently as the last century – the Soviet Union, the New Deal, Nazi Germany, Mao, and the EU were experimenting with vast

Vladimir Belogolovsky   We used to be fascinated with the future and newness, we are now scared of it and comforted by nostalgia. Before, we were obsessed with crafting beautiful objects and buildings, today we are much more concerned with raising issues and creating social

Rem Koolhaas at the Guggenheim. The colonization of the field.

The rural world is the future. So says the great guru of international architecture, Rem Koolhaas, in the major show that recently opened its doors in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue in New York. The title, ‘Countryside, the Future,’

Prejudice associates private schools in the English-speaking countryside with antiquated but decorous Gothic or neo-Gothic architectures featuring ivy-covered walls, colorful stained glass windows, and boiseries worthy of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts. So

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   The seer of sizzling city architecture now says the countryside is where the future is being built – and it’s a ‘toxic mix’. Ahead of a major Guggenheim show, he explains his epiphany. It was while visiting a brothel on the outskirts of Reno, Nevada,

The Guardian   Rowan Moore   In a departure from the gothic image of English private schools, Brighton College’s new building, designed by OMA, is an expression of global ambition. Think of an English private school and you will probably think of somewhere gothic. Something like

Eduardo Prieto   Architecture is in crisis. So is criticism. Fragmented into narratives and poetics, the former can’t quite find its place in late-stage capitalism. The latter, ignored by the public, media, and architects themselves, has lost the regulatory role it o

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Four years later, the fifteen small books making up the catalog of the Venice Biennale directed by Koolhaas have been republished in a larger and thicker single volume, a titanic endeavor that will surely bring to mind the mythical S,M,L,XL of 1995.

Tiempo   Rem Koolhaas   The modern world is preoccupied with cities. More than half of mankind is now urban, which has been the pretext for an almost exclusive focus on the city. They are seen as the engines of economy, of emancipation, of the ultimate ‘lifestyle’. Since De

Arquitectura Viva 39   Luis Fernández-Galiano   Le Corbusier arrives in New York and finds its skyscrapers small. Rem Koolhaas builds a convention center of almost a million cubic meters in Lille and points out that is only an eighth part of the volume of the world’s largest building; and it would

Luis Fernández-Galiano   This monograph was begun twenty years ago, started to take shape ten years later, and finally comes to light now, when all of us involved in it have changed, and so has the world. An explanation of the delay is in order, along with some information o

Rafael Moneo   Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron, SANAA, David Chipperfield

Rem Koolhaas     2018  
Taschen   - 2 Pages 

Pedro Baía   Porto  2014  
Circo de Ideias   - 106 Pages 

Rem Koolhaas   ¿Qué fue del urbanismo?, Grandeza, o el problema de la talla, La ciudad genérica, Espacio basura

Rem Koolhaas Sébastien Marot Irma Boom   Venice  2014  
Marsilio  

Rem Koolhaas   Venice  2014  
Marsilio   - 2336 Pages 

Rem Koolhaas Hans Ulrich Obrist   Colonia  2011  
Taschen   - 720 Pages 

Rem Koolhaas   Barcelona  2004  
Gustavo Gili   - 318 Pages 

Rotterdam  2003  
Nai010 Publishers   - 184 Pages